Routledge Advances in Translation and Interpreting Studies
About the Book Series
This series is our home for innovative research in the field of translation studies. It includes monographs and targeted edited collections that provide new insights into this important and evolving subject area.
Intra- and Interlingual Translation in Flux
1st Edition
By Višnja Jovanović
October 08, 2024
This book extends new lines of inquiry on intra- and interlingual translation, building on Jakobson’s classification of translational relations to take into account the full complexity of language and the role of social dimensions in fostering linguistic unity and identity. Jovanović argues that ...
Systematically Analysing Indirect Translations: Putting the Concatenation Effect Hypothesis to the Test
1st Edition
By James Luke Hadley
October 08, 2024
This volume applies digital humanities methodologies to indirect translations in testing the concatenation effect hypothesis. The concatenation effect hypothesis suggests that indirect translations tend to omit or alter identifiably foreign elements and also tend not to identify themselves as ...
Translating in the Local Community
1st Edition
By Peter Flynn
October 08, 2024
This volume showcases different forms of natural and non-professional translation and interpreting at work at multilingual sites in a single city, shedding new light on our understanding of the intersection of city, migration and translation. Flynn builds on work in translation studies, ...
Translation Competence: Theory, Research and Practice
1st Edition
By Carla Quinci
October 07, 2024
This book offers a systematic and comprehensive account of translation competence (TC), reflecting on its different models and conceptualisations throughout its development and outlining future directions for both theory and practice. The volume charts the evolution of TC in line with related ...
Advances in Corpus Applications in Literary and Translation Studies
1st Edition
Edited
By Riccardo Moratto, Defeng Li
August 26, 2024
Professor Riccardo Moratto and Professor Defeng Li present contributions focusing on the interdisciplinarity of corpus studies, with a special emphasis on literary and translation studies which offer a broad and varied picture of the promise and potential of methods and approaches. Inside scholars ...
Institutional Translator Training
1st Edition
Edited
By Tomáš Svoboda, Łucja Biel, Vilelmini Sosoni
August 26, 2024
This collection surveys the translator training landscape in international organizations on a global scale, offering a state-of-the-art view on institutional translator training research and practical takeaways for stakeholders. The volume’s focus on training brings a unique perspective to existing...
Relevance Theory in Translation and Interpreting: A Cognitive-Pragmatic Approach
1st Edition
By Fabrizio Gallai
August 26, 2024
This book illustrates the potential of Relevance Theory (RT) in offering a cognitive-pragmatic, cause-effect account of translation and interpreting (T&I), one which more closely engages T&I activity with the mental processes of speakers, listeners, writers, and readers during communicative...
The Behavioral Economics of Translation
1st Edition
By Douglas Robinson
August 26, 2024
This book applies frameworks from behavioral economics to Western thinking about translation, mapping four approaches to eight keywords in translation studies to bring together divergent perspectives on the study of translation and interpreting. The volume takes its points of departure from the ...
Towards a Feminist Translator Studies: Intersectional Activism in Translation and Publishing
1st Edition
By Helen Vassallo
August 26, 2024
This pioneering work advocates for a shift toward inclusivity in the UK translated literature landscape, investigating and challenging unconscious bias around women in translation and building on existing research highlighting the role of translators as activists and agents and the possibilities ...
Audio Description and Interpreting Studies: Interdisciplinary Crossroads
1st Edition
Edited
By Cheng Zhan, Riccardo Moratto
July 31, 2024
Serving as a pioneering work, this volume offers a systematic and comprehensive exploration of the integration between Audio Description (AD) and interpreting studies. It not only sheds new light on the emerging field of AD research, but also enriches the more established discipline of interpreting...
Collaborative Poetry Translation: Processes, Priorities, and Relationships in the Poettrio Method
1st Edition
By W.N. Herbert, Francis R. Jones, Fiona Sampson
July 31, 2024
This volume provides an account of collaborative poetry translation in practice. The book focuses on the 'poettrio' method as a case study. This process brings together the source-language poet, the target-language poet, and a language advisor serving as a bilingual mediator between the two. ...
The Japanese Shakespeare: Language and Context in the Translations of Tsubouchi Shōyō
1st Edition
By Daniel Gallimore
July 24, 2024
Offering the first book-length study in English on Tsubouchi and Shakespeare, Gallimore offers an overview of the theory and practice of Tsubouchi’s Shakespeare translation and argues for Tsubouchi’s place as "the Japanese Shakespeare." Shakespeare translation is one of the achievements of modern ...